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Meyer Lansky (born Maier Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant", was an American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.
Civil law countries, the most prevalent system in the world, are in shades of blue. Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions. [2] [3] [4]
The New York Society Library ( NYSL) is the oldest cultural institution in New York City. [3] It was founded in 1754 by the New York Society as a subscription library. [4] During the time when New York was the capital of the United States, it was the de facto Library of Congress. Until the establishment of the New York Public Library in 1895 ...
This Law Association, renamed the Law Institute, was founded in February 1828. One of its main goals was the founding of a law library, a task that was considered essential since at that time the only significant collections of law books in New York were held privately by such notables as Chancellor James Kent and Chief Justice John Jay. Thus ...
Description Bobst Library's Lobby A view of the interior of Bobst. The library, built in 1972, is NYU's largest library and one of the largest academic libraries in the U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, the 12-story, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m 2) structure is the flagship of an eleven-library, 5.9 million-volume system.
Scriptorium. Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais writing in a manuscript of the Speculum Historiale in French, Bruges, c. 1478–1480, British Library Royal 14 E. i, vol. 1, f. 3, probably representing the library of the Dukes of Burgundy. A scriptorium ( / skrɪpˈtɔːriəm / ⓘ) [1] was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the ...
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn .) [1] Lincoln's Inn is situated in Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden, just on the border with the City of ...
My Brother, My Sister, and I. So Far from the Bamboo Grove is an autobiography written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, a Japanese American writer. [1] It was originally published by Beech Tree in April 1986. Watkins's book takes place in the last days of 35 years of Korea's annexation by Japan. An eleven-year-old Japanese girl, Yoko Kawashima, whose ...